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Mace Head
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This handsome object was slipped onto a wooden shaft to form a mace, a club-like weapon used in war. It is unclear, however, whether the ancients used examples as well carved as this one in anything but ceremonial circumstances.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineMace Head, c. 200 BCE–100 CE. North coast of Peru, Salinar culture. Stone; overall: 11.2 x 8.9 x 8.3 cm (4 7/16 x 3 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1992.348
